 | Sir Richard Steele - 1876 - 324 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts ; and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if an another, from another. I have heard him prove, that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1890 - 220 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted •^th^j.ommerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms ; for Sjme^DOwer v^s Jto be got by arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part of our trade... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...lasting acquisitions than valour, and that sloth has mined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims, amongst which the greatest... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 360 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Eustace Budgell, Sir Richard Steele - 1892 - 160 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1892 - 168 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...often argue, that if this part of our trade were well cultiA vated, we should gain from one nation; and if another, from' another. I have heard him prove... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 256 pages
...calls the sea the British common. He is acquainted with com*" merce in all its parts, and will tell you it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...arts and industry. He will often argue, that if this part.of our trade were well cultivated, we should gain from one nation ; and if another, from another.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1893 - 212 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal 1. The Rose... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1893 - 204 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...nation ; and if another, from another. I have heard ;. rVj him prove that diligence makes more lasting acguisi£*•'• tions than valor, and that sloth... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1894 - 358 pages
...calls the sea the British Common. He is acquainted with commerce in all its parts, and will tell you that it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion...that diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword. He abounds in several frugal maxims,... | |
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